howard, tell me something i don't know. >> paul ryan is running for president again. but he's doing it in a different way this time. instead of focusing on economics, and his big budget thing he's going the cultural route for 2016. now he's pushing a very strong, very toughly worded human life amendment on abortion. i think if and when he runs, he runs cultural in iowa next time around. chris: wow. knocking out santorum. >> yeah. >> staying on the 2016 theme, the other campaign that got a real boost this week is joe biden's presumptive presidential campaign. because suddenly we see him everywhere. he was the hero of the fiscal cliff talks. he's leading the gun violence task force. chris: think he's got the bit in his teeth? do you think he's really running? >> yeah, i think he will. >> on the gun debate we were talking about, this is one thing where the speaker and white house agree that harry reid is the key player. they have to get something through the senate before they can even consider taking it up in the house. and house republicans are going to be looking to m